Spring 2010: Portland Beavers (Ore.) ballpark is remodeled into a soccer stadium for the Portland Timbers Major League Soccer team and the Beavers were sold to Jeff Moorad, then principal owner of the San Diego Padres.

October 2010: Escondido, Calif., is selected as new home for the Beavers if a stadium can be built by 2013.

2011

Spring 2011: The Beavers are renamed the Padres and relocated to Tucson, where the team played at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. The team is part of the Pacific Coast League, Pacific Conference, South Division.

May 2011: Ballpark plans in Escondido fall through after California Legislature dissolved redevelopment agencies and their funding, which Escondido had intended to use to build the stadium.

2012

May 8: MountainStar Sports Group files as a limited liability company with the Texas Secretary of State.

June 26: El Paso City Council votes 6-2 to approve a term sheet with MountainStar outlining preliminary terms of lease contract, and agreeing to build a $50 million ballpark at City Hall site if investors acquire a Triple-A minor league team.

July 30: Pacific Coast League Executive Committee announces approval of MountainStar's Preliminary Application Review for purchase of the Tucson Padres.

Aug. 1: Quality of Life Voters for Democracy file a petition with the city clerk asking that all quality-of-life projects receive voter approval before the City Council funds them.

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9: Coalition for Responsive Government files petition to repeal June 26 council vote and save City Hall.

Aug. 23: City rejects petition by the Quality of Life Voters for Democracy because it didn't contain sufficient signatures.

Sept. 5: City clerk certifies petition by the Coalition for Responsive Government as valid; to be considered for approval by council.

Sept. 17: PCL approves sale of Tucson Padres to MountainStar, pending approval of a lease contract by City Council.

Sept. 18: City Council votes down (4Ð3) an ordinance repealing council's June 26 actions as requested by the certified petition from the Coalition for Responsive Government.

Sept. 18: City Council votes 4Ð3 to approve a contract with MountainStar, as well as ballpark development and non-relocation agreement. Mayor John Cook says he may veto the vote.

Oct. 4: Former Mayor Ray Salazar and two others file a federal lawsuit seeking a permanent injunction asking the city to halt its plans to raze City Hall and to allow voters to decide whether to build the ballpark at that site.

Oct. 9: Local lawyer Raymundo Rojas files criminal complaint asking that City Manager Joyce Wilson be investigated for allegedly using public funds for political advertising related to the planned Downtown baseball stadium.

Oct. 11: MountainStar announces final acquisition of Tucson Padres.

Oct. 16: City files motion to dismiss federal lawsuit.

Nov. 6: Sixty percent of voters approve hotel tax increase to fund about 72
percent of the $50 million ballpark.

Nov. 20: A group called Citizens for Taxpayer Justice files its intent to circulate a petition to stop the demolition of City Hall.

Nov. 13: MountainStar Sports Group files motion to intervene in federal lawsuit, asking that it be dismissed.

Nov. 29: U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama dismisses the federal lawsuit against the city.

Nov. 29: The city clerk certifies the second petition filed by the Coalition for Responsive Government as having enough valid signatures to move forward.

Nov. 29: U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama dismisses the federal lawsuit against the city.

Nov. 29: The city clerk certifies the second petition filed by the Coalition for Responsive Government as having enough valid signatures to move forward.

Dec. 18: The City Council forms the City of El Paso Downtown Development Corporation-to be chaired by the mayor and made up of eight city representatives-to manage the issuance of bonds and ballpark lease.

2013

Jan. 8: The city awards C.F. Jordan Construction/Hunt Construction Group the $40 million construction manager-at-risk to build the ballpark.

Feb. 4: A hearing in Travis County is postponed as petitioners opposed to demolishing City Hall ask that the case be moved to federal court.

Feb. 6: A federal judge remands the case back to state court.

Feb. 19: The City Council rejects the Citizens for Taxpayer Justice petition, and introduces an ordinance calling for a special election for the Coalition for Responsive Government petition.

Feb. 19-20: A district judge in Travis County rules that the city of El Paso an issue bonds to finance the Downtown ballpark; but the judge did not rule on whether the city should put an initiative on the May ballot that would ask voters to approve razing City Hall.

Feb: 26: The City Council symbolically adopts resolution that repealed its
June 2012 decision to build the ballpark. Resolution did not invalidate any
contracts or plans related to the ballpark or City Hall's demolition.

March 11: Demolition of Insights El Paso Science Center begins.

March 26: The city announces City Hall demolition day: April 14.

March 29: City Hall offices and employees relocation complete. City Hall is
vacated and considered a construction zone.

April 23: Railroad quiet zones met with opposition; part of deal for
ballpark land

May 15: MoutainStar Sports Group hires Brad Taylor as general manager for El
Paso's Triple-A baseball team